Poems, divine and moral [T173370]
- DMI number:
- 865
- Publication Date:
- 1754
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T173370
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CB127362619
- Shelfmark:
- Ecco - Bod
- Full Title:
- POEMS, | DIVINE and MORAL. | Many of them ORIGINALS. | [double rule] | [ornament] | [double rule] | [i]NORWICH:[/i] | Printed and Sold by W. CHASE, in the [i]Cockey-Lane.[/i] | MDCCLIV.
- Place of Publication:
- Norwich
- Genres:
- Collection of religious verse and Miscellany dominated by poet
- Format:
- Octavo
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: preface signed John Hawes pp.i-ii.
- Editor:
- John Hawes
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Printer:
- William II Chase
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Errors like straws upon the surface flow
- Page No:
- p.i
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- No books have I to help my faultering brain
- Page No:
- p.ii
- Poem Title:
- Poeta Loquitur.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Want is a bitter but a wholesome good
- Page No:
- p.i
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryden.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Ere gins were known when arrows showered the field
- Page No:
- p.3-7
- Poem Title:
- From Boteler's Hill, Norwich. To James Mackerell, Esq; This
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
- First Line:
- For man's transgression some grave sages say
- Page No:
- p.7
- Poem Title:
- A Thought on the vast Chasm beneath the Hill.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Above all mortal ken is space divine
- Page No:
- pp.8-9
- Poem Title:
- On Space.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
- First Line:
- The greatest blessings of our god
- Page No:
- pp.9-11
- Poem Title:
- Written sitting on a Hay-cock at Hythe in Kent, in time of great Drought.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
- First Line:
- In that sweet month when genial heat grows warm
- Page No:
- pp.11-13
- Poem Title:
- On the Town of Hythe, One of His Majesty's Cinque Ports in Kent. By the Desire of some Gentlemen, its Inhabitants.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fir to grace a bridgegroom's arms
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph on Mrs. Elizabethan Harrison, aged 20.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
- First Line:
- In noble morals prudence leads the way
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- On Prudence.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
- First Line:
- In frantic pleasures he pursues his chase
- Page No:
- p.14
- Poem Title:
- The Libertine.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
- First Line:
- Relieve the widow's and the orphan's tears
- Page No:
- p.14
- Poem Title:
- On Charity.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
- First Line:
- Trust secrets to thy friend who will conceal
- Page No:
- p.14
- Poem Title:
- On Secrecy.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
- First Line:
- It happened on a summer's day
- Page No:
- pp.15-16
- Poem Title:
- The Milk-Maid.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- She first departed he for one day tried
- Page No:
- p.15
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph on a Gentleman, who died the Day after his Lady died.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To you ye happy few who here repair
- Page No:
- pp.16-18
- Poem Title:
- On Sherringham, a Town on the Sea-Coast in Norfolk.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
- First Line:
- It oft times makes me scatch my head where it don't itch
- Page No:
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Chaucer.
- Attributed To:
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- First Line:
- If ever I'm doomed the marriage bed to wear
- Page No:
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- The Maiden's Choice.
- Attribution:
- By a Young Lady.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In softest chosen words reprove your friend
- Page No:
- pp.18-19
- Poem Title:
- On Reproof.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- An easy temper is above disdain
- Page No:
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- On Good Nature.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
- First Line:
- Oh beastlike passion how you sink the man
- Page No:
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- On Lust.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
- First Line:
- With that stern frowm it points its ugly way
- Page No:
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- On Ill Nature.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
- First Line:
- Blessed be the man who first with artful skill
- Page No:
- pp.20-21
- Poem Title:
- On seeing a Person make Pens.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
- First Line:
- A conscience clear and void of all offence
- Page No:
- p.21
- Poem Title:
- Six good Things.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
- First Line:
- A miser's soul endowed with generous fires
- Page No:
- p.21
- Poem Title:
- Six Things hard to find.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
- First Line:
- His infant fingers scarce could grab the quill
- Page No:
- pp.21-22
- Poem Title:
- On seeing an Infant Boy of seven Years of Age learning to write.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
- First Line:
- Uncertain doubts are mingled in the breast
- Page No:
- pp.22-23
- Poem Title:
- On Jealousy.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
- First Line:
- Let Arnam's name recorded stand
- Page No:
- pp.23-24
- Poem Title:
- On the Alteration of the Castel Dyke.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
- First Line:
- The rich for want of labour to their cost
- Page No:
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- On Labour.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
- First Line:
- Censure's revengeful sting so oft we throw
- Page No:
- p.24.2
- Poem Title:
- On Reproof.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
- First Line:
- Invectives we too oft at others throw
- Page No:
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- On Sharpness of Wit.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
- First Line:
- Search narrowly the soul of him you choose
- Page No:
- pp.25-26
- Poem Title:
- Good Advice.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- This ancient sage whom wisdom had inspired
- Page No:
- p.25
- Poem Title:
- On Socrates his wanting a Coat.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
- First Line:
- As when a noxious seed takes root
- Page No:
- p.26-27
- Poem Title:
- At the Desire of a Gentleman at Aldborough, I wrote on the Sentence, Nemo repente fuit Turpissimus.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
- First Line:
- Madam accept these lines which he who durst not bring
- Page No:
- pp.27-29
- Poem Title:
- To Miss B--d, after the Manner of Ovid. Design'd to be slip'd on the Collar of a Grey-hound, who frequently traversed teh way between her House and the Author's.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hythe's sweets I've sung its pastures and its flocks
- Page No:
- pp.29-30
- Poem Title:
- On Folkestone, a Fishing Town in Kent.
- Attribution:
- J. H.
- Attributed To:
- John Hawes
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